How to format your references using the Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Krider PE (2003) Atmospheric science. Deciphering the energetics of lightning. Science 299:669–670

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby JG, Thursby MC (2003) Intellectual property. University licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act. Science 301:1052

A journal article with 3 authors

Šubelj L, Fiala D, Bajec M (2014) Network-based statistical comparison of citation topology of bibliographic databases. Sci Rep 4:6496

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J, Feng C-Q, Sun Z-Q, et al (2014) In-situ one-step hydrothermal synthesis of a lead germanate-graphene composite as a novel anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep 4:7030

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Raghavan V (2016) Combustion Technology. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Allen KS (2005) Pro ASP.NET 1.1 in VB .NET: From Professional to Expert. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Patrick S, McDowell A (2013) Propionibacterium acnes: An Emerging Pathogen in Biomaterial-Associated Infection. In: Moriarty TF, Zaat SAJ, Busscher HJ (eds) Biomaterials Associated Infection: Immunological Aspects and Antimicrobial Strategies. Springer, New York, NY, pp 87–105

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Newly Discovered Glass Frog Looks Just Like Kermit! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kermits-species-revealed/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2005) Transportation Security Administration: More Clarity on the Authority of Federal Security Directors Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wheatley BA (2010) Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Crow K (2001) UPPER WEST SIDE. New York Times 145

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Krider 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Krider 2003; Thursby and Thursby 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Thursby and Thursby 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult.
ISSN (print)	0167-6857
ISSN (online)	1573-5044
Scope	Horticulture